Charles Willson Peale Quotes

A taste for natural enquiries is not only useful in the highest degree, but a neverfailing source of the most exalted enjoyment; a more rational pleasure cannot possibly occupy the attention or captivate the affections of mankind, than that which arises from a due consideration of the works of nature.

Charles Willson Peale

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• Enjoyment
• Exalted
• Enquiries

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• My favorite spot is the Maldives. Since I travel so much for work, I like to go to places that are very secluded and quiet.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Quiet

• We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Remember
  • Revolution
  • Right

• Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a glimpse in a window or something, I think it is someone else.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Man
  • Myself
  • Window

• I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

  

  Paige Turco
  • People
  • Movies
  • Actress

• This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Family
  • Me
  • Welcome

• The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
  • Reason
  • Doing

• In vain would science scan and trace Firmly her aspect. All the while, There gleams upon her far-off face A vague unfathomable smile.

  

  Alfred Austin
  • Science
  • Smile
  • Aspect

• I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.

  

  Lisa See
  • Done
  • Hope
  • Wonder

• None of us ever know all the possible courses our lives could have and maybe should have taken. It's probably just as well. Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. Just ask Pandora.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Taken
  • Forever
  • Secrets

• But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• 'Cooler and warmer' is not a tag line that Rhode Islanders like, that much is clear.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Clear
  • Rhode Islanders
  • Tag Line

• I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Up
  • Place
  • Photography

• A win is a win, which is about that particular moment.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Moments
  • Winning
  • Particular

• You women are all the same, if bed's all right, You think everything else can go to the wind. But if there's any infringement of your bed-rights, Then fair is foul and all hell's let loose.

  

  Euripides
  • Women
  • Wind
  • Infringement

• I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Death
  • Individual

• To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Effort

• God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Guilt
  • Misery
  • Pale

• My mother had been an English teacher in India before she came to the U.K., and she taught me to read early on - not only in English, but in Hindi, too. My teachers didn't like the fact that I was reading more quickly than they were teaching, and as a consequence, I would sometimes get bored in class.

  

  Sanjeev Bhaskar
  • Mother
  • Reading
  • Teacher

• They have bad taste. I am not a good-looking guy.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• A taste for natural enquiries is not only useful in the highest degree, but a neverfailing source of the most exalted enjoyment; a more rational pleasure cannot possibly occupy the attention or captivate the affections of mankind, than that which arises from a due consideration of the works of nature.

  

  Charles Willson Peale
  • Taste
  • Enjoyment
  • Exalted